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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-12-06


ONE DOLLAR AND NINETY CENTS WIN buy fine
francs, the One-pTice Halter and FurniSher, cor.
7th ana d.
REDUCED prices in tailoring department. Else
Mans. 7th and l.
glow BAKGAISs.-"PalaIs Royaln Undressed Kid
Gloves Ians; New style Embroidered BAGS, 81
day.. One pair only 70 a customer.
FOR UsrFuI HOLIDAY PRESENTS don't fail to visit
Wash. b. Williams Furniture, Carpet, Drapery
pepts, 3ll. 317, 3l9 9TH St. 6;' 6,5 La. ave-, 6sS,
sst GA Sc Goods selected now will be reserved
until called for.
RkpucED prices in mems oyercoats. EIsEMAS's'
9Th aud L.
srrcIAL SALE of portiers and drapery this week
ct W. u. HoeAe's.
You CAN SAVE % per cent In purchasing dia-
monds Of r Harris Co., importers OF diamonds
~: 7Ih street
REDUCED prices In storm coats. EIsEMAN. It'll 6 Z
FrssrIls Ice CREAM and Charlotte Russo.
HOLIDAYS, HoLIDAYs!-Go to Davis, 723 9TH st.
for your pictures one large crayon and one doz.
nnely antAaed cabinet portraits for only - Come
and see Thorn.
RrnVS.D prices In mems clothing. EIsExAs's.
9TH asad l.
"ESrAI GLUE" mends broken articles
HOLIDAY GOODS.
Ons Hundred Standing and Mantel Cabinets.
Art Furniture of Every Description
Handsome and Useful Holiday Presents.
WASH b. WILLIAMS,
3ll-317 TIN street.
RkDvcrD prices in every dept EsEnAs'A7thSE
SEE GRAND display OF diamonds at K Harris
Col $ae Sth street.
FRx PoRsRAHA Kecs Kemethy, 11O9 Pa ava
Q.-CAS consumption be cured;
s.-Uue Bakers Cod Liver OIL and Malt
RIpUcIp prices in mems overcoats. ElsENAN's,
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-12-06

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Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-19
Spring Fishing in Florida. lr attar to Novy To,,rpoI of


 merce.
 l have said that there is fairly good fishing here. Bass are plenty, but the fish are as you find everywhere, of large fish once taken. Strangers are always told of that fish. At Lakeland he was caught in Bushy lake, and weighed, according to the consci- ence of the man who told you about him, from ten to sixteen pounds. Here he was taken in Lake Virginia, and weighed from six to nine pounds. Since have been here I have taken ont of the water and kept, or thrown back, over hundred and fifty bass, all taken with the fly. I have not seen one yet that weighed two pounds, and the large majority weighed just pound apiece. The bass have habit here which is peculiar. Usually that fish takes the fly freely till long after dark, and the larger fish seem to feed latest. Here they stop rising sud denly in the twilight, and nothing will coax up bass in the early darkness. I have found it so every evening. For my fishing here is reserved for the late part of the afternoon, when the lights grow softer on down the shore of the lake, casting in to the edge of the grass, and drawing outward. I have to throw back majority of those fish that strike the fly as- too small to take. these chickens, as the negroes call them on the St. Johns river, are the het ter fish for eating As the approaches the horizon the lights become very beautiful, and the shores, especially where palmettoes overhang the lake, are solemn. Rowing under them on the glassy water, you enter & weird gloom. I forget to cast, and the boat glides along in the shad- ows while I peer into the openings to see the birds whose voices come out in wild concert.
 have seen four alligators in these lakes within the past two days, one in Oeeola and three in Miselle, which IS the third lake of the chain. don't know whether I found the first blooms of the calopogon 'orchid) two days ago. Yesterday saw the first flower of the paw-paw. So spring ad-
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-19
SOCI

Some Socialists say they will till the soil when it is made free; but they will not till then.-New Orleans Picayune. The interstate commerce law does not prohibit the passing of cold waves all over the country.-Pittsburg Chronicle. A Hindoo invented the fiddle, but fddlers are very scarce in Hindostan nowadays. The Hindoos saw the errors of their ways long ago.-Philadelphia Call.
 "Madame,' said gentleman to lady, fpardon me, but your hair is coming down" "And yours, sir," replied the lady indignant ly. ''is coming out. t."-Burlingten Free Press.
 Chicago mothers now frighten their naughty children into obedience with the following warning: 'If you are not good, the interstate commerce bill will catch you."-Chieago News.
 There's one thing about a Kentuckian you can't help liking; he never wants the earth. 'tGods green yarth'' is enough for him. And whenever he makes speech he generally gets it too.-Burdette.
 Mamma-Did it hurt you much, dears Dorothy (who is connoisseur in dolls, and who has had tumble e)-Terwibly, mamma! My knee feels des's if all the sawdust was runnin' out. .-Tid Bits.
 ''I see," said the new minister, meeting cigarettes" "Yes,'' replied the noble youth, stI promised my mother that I would never use tobacco in any form. ."-Burdette.
 Division of Labor. He-"Where are you going, my pretty maid?'' She-fI'm going milking, sir' (she said). He-"Can I not help you, my pretty maid" She "You can work the pump handle sir'' (she said Puck.
 Scme Swiss capitalists propose to estab- fish snail culture in this country. So long as Philadelphia is open to an offer, no other city in the Union would have any success in giving inducements to any enterprise of this escription.-Graphic
 citizen was trying to hire a colored man at the market yesterday to clear out back yard, but the laborer dodged and hesitated and hung out about it so long that the other finally exclaimed: "Hang itl I don't believe you want to work at all" ''Oh, yes I does; but dassn't trust myself shouldn't more'n git to work afore I'd go on 8 strike an l doan' want to bodder ."-Detroit Free Press.
 Excited tenant-See here, MT. Rackrent, there's spring broken through my cellar walls, and the cellar is just flooded. Old spring! Excited tenant should say strong; we'll all be drowned if something isn't done for that cellar. ''Well, I don't see but that I'll have to raise your rent about $4 month; there's nothing adds to the value of a house so much as good water supply. .s-Burdette. English, wrote list of definitions, from which we select the following: ''Wig, hyp- ocrite hair; fattery, good kind of curse word; whisky, sin in water; gold, a very good thing; blow, wind verb; kick, foot verb; bow, salute verb; hop, frog verb; liar, bad adjective of boy; modesty, good adjective of girl; vine, string tree; cum ming, good word of philosophy man; bull let, son of a gun; sponge, water foam; angel, Gods boy; preach, missionary verb. |-Syracuse Christian Advocate.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-19
AJUNGLE ENAGERIE.
FOrepaagh's Staten Island PrOiect-I
 YEild KRoasx<

FOrepaagh's Staten Island Project-A
 Wilderness Full of Wild Beasts.
 Erastina, Staten Island, where Buffalo Bill entertained a million or more people last summer, is to be turned into semi civilized East Indian jungle this year. Adam Fore paugh, the famous snowman, and Erastus Wiman, whom everybody knows, have put their heads and unlimited bank accounts to- gether and have created what they are pleased to call "A New Olympia" at Erasti- na, one of the principal features of which will be the great Forepaugh geological col
 lection, consisting of some thirty elephants and two or three choice specimens of nearly every other species of animal or bird known to exist, and these will be grouped in and about the groves of Erastina in the most at tractive manner. Deep pools will be created for the hippopotamus to wallow in; elephants will be tethered to the trees; lions, tigers and other carnivorous beasts will have their dens masked in with underbrush; ostriches and emus will stalk about in the forest and hun
 dreds of tropical birds, monkeys, etc., will chatter in the boughs above. The perfor- manees, which are to be given afternoon and night, will embrace all the latest novelties well as the revival of ancient sports and pas times. Grand stands are in process of erec. IlOu IO uOiu bWeuGJ bAousauO poISOuS, qua one end of the great field will be entirely covered with a canvas canopy, thus leaving one side open so that a full view of the vast hippodrome course (which is one third of mile in circumference) may be had at all times. The usual circus rings and elevated stages will be made near the amphitheater and under the canopy covering, thus pro- tecting the audience and performers from the clements. It is here that the circus fea- lures will be seen, but the most attention will be given to open-air performances on the grand plaza and open race track. It is proposed to revive and present the ancient olympian games and introduce the most spirited contests, such as broadsword com bats on horseback, chariot racing, wrestling and other lively exhibitions which must be won or lost on their merits. The most i'm posing pageants will take place at every per formance, and at night pyrotechnic displays will add to the beauty of the procession, which will extend around the entire course. Features of the wild West, including cow boys, Mexicans and Indians, bucking horses, stage coach and crack shots led by Captain A. H. Bogardus. The enterprise is now well under way and promises to surpass anything ever seen in any part of the world. The opening exhibition will probably take place on June 27th
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-19
MARY,S LITTLE LAMB.
The Story of the Origin of the Tale
 Which is True as Gospel.

The Story of the Origin of the Tale,
 Which is True Gospel.
 From the American Agrieulturist
 Most of young readers will be sur prised to hear that the well-known nursery song of "Mary Had Little Lamb' is 8 true story, and that 'Mary" is still living About seventy years ago she was little girl, the daughter of farmer in Worcester county, with her father to the fields to see the sheep, and one day they found baby lamb which was thought to be dead. Kind hearted little Mary, however, lifted it up in her arms, and it seemed to breathe, carried it home, made it warm bed near the stove and nursed it tenderly. Great was her delight when, after weeks of careful feeding and watching, her little patient began to grow well and strong, and soon after it was able to run about.
 It knew it's young mistress perfectly, a1 ways came at her call and happy only when at her side. One day it followed her to the village school, and not knowing what else to do with it, she put it under her desk and covered it with her shawl. There it stayed until Mary was called up to the teach CTS desk to say her lesson, and then the lamb walked quietly after her and the other chil- Oren Durs1 out laugh1nS. 50 the teacher had to shut the little girls pet in the wood shed until school was out. Soon after this young student named John Rollstone wrote a little poem about Mary and her lamb and presented it to her. The lamb grew to be a sheep and lived for. many years, and when at last it died Mary grieved so much for it that her mother took some of it's wool, which was "as white snow," and knitted pair of stockings for her to wear in remembrance of her darling.
 Some years after the lambs death Mrs. Sarah Hall, a celebrated woman who wrote books, composed some verses about Marys lamb and added them to those written by John Rollstone, making the complete poem as we know it. Mary took such good of the stockings made of her lambs fleece that when she was a grown-up woman she gave one of them te church fair in Boston. As soon as it became known that the stocking was made from the fleece of 'sMary's little lamb" everyone wanted a piece of it. So the stocking was raveled out and the yarn cut into small pieces. Each piece tied to card on which Mary wrote her full name, and these cards sold so we'll that they brought the large sum of one hundred and forty dol lars in the Old South church.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-19
WHERE GOOSE LINERS BLOOM.
A Few Days at Buda Pesth Make 0n'
 a Slave 10 the DelfcacY.

A Few Days at Buda Pesth Make One
 a Slave to the Deltcacy.
 From the San Francisco Chronicle.l
 The goose is bird that, after it is dead, constantly thrusts itself on the strangers at- tention in Austria. It's apparition is ire quent on the tables and hotels at Vienna, and it reappears more frequently as you de- scend the Danube. It is the most chosen vii and at Buda Pesth. Here it achieves it's apotheosis. But it is not 50 much to the bird itself as to that important organ, it's liver, that desire to direct attention. The local commerce in this delicacy is considers ble. On certain streets the attention of the pedestrian is attracted by the counterfeit presentment of goose, dead and cooked, beside which is painted object so nearly like that he is aware it is the liver of the de- ceased bird. This sign indicates a shop whose sole business is to sell roasted goose cut in pieces, goose flyers and sort of bis cult made of chopped goose and four. Here is temptation to those who are fond of pate de foie gras. On entering the dealer is discovered standing behind a huge tray filled with livers arranged in rows, armed with fork resembling Neptune's trident He passes the trident mystically over the flyers and names the prices-twenty kreut- gers, twenty five kreutzers, thirty, forty, if ty kreutzers, the latter being for giant birds and weighing nearly pound. You take one of the smallest a starter and biscuit, and adjourning to neighboring wine shop, prop erly adjust your digestive apparatus to the unctious viand with fourth of white Hungarian wine. No bad result follows, as with the artifcialiy fattened flyers that cost their wsight in gold in America. Your di- gestion continues excellent. What is the effecta The next day you come back and buy liver twice the size, take two rations of biscuit and wash the repast down with A ''half'' of the same wine and so on. As this ratio of increase cannot go on forever, you find yourself obliged to leave the town day or two sooner than you intended, to subdue a growing appetite, taking with you in your valise few pounds of goose flyers to satisfy the bangs of hunger and solaee the regret of parting, for you know when you have left the Danube you can see this luxury no raore.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-19
She Wanted a Judge or Two Killed.
 From the Boston Transcript.l

The was one woman among the throng of sightseers at Forest Hills who was particu- larly desirous of knowing whether any jndges were passengers on the wrecked train.
 "Judgess No, madam. Did yon suppose any judges were on board2'
 "Well, I didn't know but there were. There are good many judges living in Ded- ham. Dedham's great town for judges: shop girls that were killeds"
 ''Yes, but their lives are just as dear to them"
 "Oh, know it," answered the woman: T know it. But if we must have an accident think it is we'll to have some distinguished persons killed. It makes other distinguished persons realize their responsibility, and teaches people that man may be celebrated and be liable, same as others. 1 thought if judge or two was killed it might have good effect on the youngW
 She went away looking the disappointed philosopher in every line of her face.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-19

Scully also owns about 100000 acres in Kansas He lives in London. He will have trouble when the bill becomes a law, as it probably will.
 A decision just made by the court of
 errors and appeals of New Jersey is interest ing. It is that trustee and member of the
 finance committee of a savings bank prohib-
 ited by it's charter from investing it's funds
 in mortgage, unless the real estate was
 worth double the loan above all incum-
 brances, is liable for the loss arising from
 such illegal investment. The court held
 that it was not essential to prove that he
 acted fraudulently or that he derived any
 benefit from the loan. It was sufficient to show that there was culpable lack of pru- dence or failure to exercise with ordinary care his functions as quasi trustee of the sustained.
 The business colleges of this country do a useful work, but they are not to be compared for efficiency with the European commercial colleges. These are either public or semi- public schools, and are in all cases under government control. The young man who enters one of them at fifteen years of age for a three or four years course is given thor ough instruction in commercial practices of all kinds; he is educated in the principles of commercial law, and also has an opportunity afforded him to acquire speaking. writing and reading knowledge of the three or four foreign languages that are in most use in in- ternational commerce. It is said that on &C., count of the completeness of their instruc tion the graduates of the commercial college of Berlin are greatly sought for in large Lon don business houses to fill clerical positions, the knowledge that they possess being far superior to that which the young English men would have when starting in business life
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-19

receiving her friends in the Rue de Berri. Nevertheless" ]" she added, q trust to your tact and good taste" We'll, since the publi- cation of his two articles in the Revue des Deux Mondes M. Taine has not appeared at the princess receptions, and irritated at his neglect, the princess has deposited her card, with P. P. c. in the corner, in the safe keep ing of NJ. Taine's concierge. The story runs that at the academy last Thursday Taine opened his soul to M. Renan and said: "I shall never cease to regret having lost so old a friend on account of book"
 s'Mon ami, replied M. Renan, Sin order to have the right to speak freely my thoughts I broke with greater lady than the prin- cessr "What ladY?' stThe church.n
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-19
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Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-19
The Falling out of Friends.

There has been some talk this week about the split between M. Taine and the Princess Mathilde, of whose salon he has long been habitue. While at work on his book on Ma poieon. M. Taine told the princess that he was afraid that she would not read his judg- nents with pleasure. The princess very kindly replied that she naturally could not judge Napoleon so severely as M Taine probably would, for had it not been for the great emperor she might have been selling oranges in the streets of Ajaccio instead of
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-19

The returns show gain of more than $4, ,000, ,000, or IT per cent, in the earnings of American railroads during March, 1887, over those of March, 1886. Out of III roads only thirteen exhibit decrease. This indi- oates that hard times are coming again no mora at praRant.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-19

Several of the counties in Dakota now have ladies as county superintendent ts of schools, and it is asserted that most of them are more capable and attentive to their du- ties than the male superintendents in other counties.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-19
PRINCELY SUIT !!

The fairest, most sensible, even in dress parade. Worn by royalty at home and abroad. At homes Yes, indeed, for the new world has royalty that outshines that of the old.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-19
EUROPE and AMERICA. A Great Surgeon
Noted Physician.

The distinguished American physician, Dr. R. c. Flower, is a cousin of that eminent surgeon, scientist and author, Professor Wm. H. Flower, k. R. s. of London. Professor Flower is one of the Queens surgeons; he is also the director of natural history in the British Museum. an intimate friend of Prof. Huxley, and leading contributor to the Encyclopedia Britannica and other standard works. While the professor has been thus prosecuting his research in surgery and sci ence in the old world, Dr. R. 0. Flower (much his junior in years) has been engoged in exhaustive study in the realm of medicine, and compelling the flowers, plants and trees of the earth to yield their virtue for the cure of the sick and dying of this age. The splen- did success that has crowned his patient sci entife study, is witnessed in his wonderful Nerve and Brain Pill, and that king of all tonics, and specific cure of dyspepsia and in- digestion, his Liver and Stomach Sanative. These great remedies are now for sale by all druggists, and are performing miraculous cures in tens of thousands of cases. They will cure you.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-19
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Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-19

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It is becoming more and more dangerous to go to war. A new gun which is being made by Krupp is 52115 feet long and weighs 315, ,0O0 pounds, although only 1524 inches in bore. Its lightest prsjectile will weigh 1882 pounds, and will be propelled by .O7O pounds of prismatic brown powder.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-04-19
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The oldest inhabitant remembers but few April showers like that of yesterday.
 The withdrawal of 8 large body of shoe makers in New York from the Knights of Labor organization is significant protest against tyranny.